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Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

A monument at the site of the Towner School Bus Tragedy, which lead to changes in school bus safety.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.